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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3660, 18 September 1880, Page 4

Nordlingen, Rocroy, Marston Moor, Naseby, and Seneff.and the dates range from 1631 to 1674. The lightest relative loss was at Marston Moor, 16 per cent., tad the heaviest at Hocroy, 35 per cent. The average percentage of casualties for the period was 26. A noticable feature of this period is the large proportion of killed to the entire number of casualties. At Marston Moor the entire losses were 7500, but more than half of the number were killed; at Rocroy, of 18,000 Spanish infantry 9000 were killed in fbeir ranks. The second period selected extends from 1745 to 1814, and 22 battles—among themi Fbntenoy, Marengo, Austeriitz, Jena, Wagrain, Leipsic, and Bautzen*— are included. The infantry arm of this period was the old "Brown Bess," a rmooth-bore flint-lock, with bayonet. The smallest relative loss in this period wai at Vittoria, 8 per cent., and the largest at Zorndorf, 40 per cent. The average percentage of casualities for the period.was 20J- per cent., or 5| per cent, less thBH during the previous period. The third period is that of rifled barrels and percussion caps, from 1854 to 1863. Eleven battles, among them Alma, Magenta, Solferino, Shiloh, Chickahominy, Fredericksburg, Chancellorville, and Gettysburg are included; the percentages of loss range from 8 to 20 per cent., and the average is 15 per cent, or 5£- per cent. less than in the second period. The -fourth period dates from the first appearance of the breech-loader, and includes the battles of Komggratz, Woerth, Spicheren, Marsle-Tour, Gravelotte, and Sedan. The percentage of losses ranges from 7 to 16, and the average is only 11, or 4 per cent, less than in the third period. These are very curious facts which gtuA dents of the science of war will doubtless find suggestive. The writer is careful to give his authorities, and the figures contained in his tabulations may doubtless be depended upon for approximate accuracy. '